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MR. H. A. HUNT, the Commonwealth Meteorologist, has in previous reports given concise histories of the rainfall for New South Wales and Victoria, the volume under notice being thus the third of the series to be published. This report contains all the available annual totals and number of days with rainfall recorded to the end of the year 1913 for 1040 stations in Queensland, and in addition monthly values up to the end of 1912 are given for 137 stations, so distributed as to afford a good representation over the area under consideration. Many of the records go back to 1880, and even earlier, so that a good working basis is provided for investigators who require information in regard to local seasonal rainfall, or who may wish to compare the annual variations of rainfall in this part of Australia with those of the other States of the Commonwealth. Every effort was made to obtain trustworthy data, and in addition to the official records, all possible sources information, such as histories of Queensland and old newspaper files, were searched. Much labour was involved in the elimination of discrepancies which so often appear when the same record is published in separate reports. A very useful appendix contains tables showing the monthly and yearly values of the meteorological elements (except wind direction and velocity) at Brisbane from 1887 to 1912.
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M., R. Queensland Rainfall 1 . Nature 96, 440 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096440a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/096440a0